Q: What type of budget was used on Chainsaw 1?
LP: Oh a chicken wing. I went down to the 7-11 every night to climb in the dumpster to get boxes to send the film we shot off in the next day. We didn't go to sleep. we passed out.

Q: You were friends of Toby and had done camera work on Chainsaw 1, were you offered L.G. Peters or did you read for it?
LP: Well yeah i have worked with Toby on a few projects like Poltergiest, but Toby called me and said, hey, we're gonna skin you alive! I said ok, what?!? Then he told me they were making the sequal. So when i got down there the casting director put me through a trial by fire test cause she didn't get to cast the part.

Q: How long did it take to skin you?
LP: That made for a very long day. It started at 2am on a slant board, and of coarse i went to sleep. When i woke up i looked pretty wierd. I couldn't eat and had to drink coffee through a straw cause the makeup went right up against my mouth. But i had some fun, driving across town i got to wave at the kids from the van.

Q: Did you help build the fly house on set?
LP: I forgot... shit. I think I built the roof. I was raised with lincoln logs, i knew how to build a log cabin.

Q: What do you think is your best work ever caught on film?
LP:The earliest film i did called the Whole Shooting Match. Which was a film we did without a script, just alot of heart. We did it just because the drive of one individual. That was the time i felt i was in a state of grace and the most fun i ever had, ever.